Amsterdam - Tapa dura

Two friends a successful editor in chief of the popular daily newspapers and a recognized composer, working on the "Symphony of the Millennium", enter into an agreement for euthanasia: if one of them falls into unconsciousness state and cease to control themselves, the other agrees to kill him, in 1998 the novel Iena Makyuena ( p. 1948) "Amsterdam" won the Booker Prize. Russian translation of the novel became a bestseller intellectual, and the work Viktora Golysheva was in 2001 awarded the Russian prize "Booker Little," the first and only time it is awarded for translation.